Multi-agent reinforcement learning: An overview

From the abstract:

Multi-agent systems can be used to address problems in a variety of do- mains, including robotics, distributed control, telecommunications, and economics. The complexity...

Post-Pandemic: A Hybrid Lab Experience

This article discusses the importance of a hybrid laboratory model, blending physical hardware with digital twins. Example using the Quanser Interactive Lab (QLabs) platform is given.

1D Kinematics - Speed, Velocity, Acceleration

Walter Lewin is one of the most reputed professors and was a former lecturer at MIT. His free to watch series on YouTube titled 8.01 is an excellent one for undergrads and high school...

MATLAB Discovery Page - Visual Inspection

Visual inspection is the image-based inspection of parts where a camera scans the part under test for both failures and quality defects. Automated inspection and defect detection are...

Interactive Course for Control Theory

Control Theory is a topic that finds a widespread application throughout engineering and natural sciences. It is very common in electrical, mechanical and process engineering. Especially...

Nonlinear System Identification | System Identification, Part 3

Learn about nonlinear system identification by walking through one of the many possible model options: A nonlinear ARX model. Brian Douglas covers the importance of adding an offset term to...

What are Phased Arrays?

This video introduces the concept of phased arrays. An array refers to multiple sensors, arranged in some configuration, that act together to produce a desired sensor pattern. With a phased...

Regulatory PID (Polish)

W tym odcinku, opisze wam podstawy działania regulatorów PID.

Vibrational control of nonlinear systems: Vibrational controllability and tr...

In the first part of this work, the criteria for the existence of stabilizing parametric oscillations have been derived. In the present paper, the problem of choosing the stabilizing...

Systems Engineering, Part 2: Towards a Model-Based Approach

The role of systems engineering is to help find and maintain a balance between the stakeholder needs, the management needs, and the engineering needs of a project. So we can think of it as...

Simulink Onramp

Learn the basics of how to create, edit, and simulate models in Simulink®. Use block diagrams to represent real-world systems and simulate components and algorithms.

Ratio Control - the right and wrong approach

A discussion as to why the ratio should be the MV (controller output) not the CV.

The Demod Squad: A Tutorial on the Utility and Methodologies for Using Modul...

Video talk of the paper by the same name.

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

From the book introduction:

The idea that we learn by interacting with our environment is probably the first to occur to us when we think about the nature of learning. When an infant plays...

Reinforcement Learning with MATLAB.

This repository contains series of modules to get started with Reinforcement Learning with MATLAB.

It is divided into 4 stages.

In Stage 1, we start with learning RL concepts by manually...

OIT System Design Laboratory (Japanese)

A collection of video lectures from OIT SDL.

How Antennas Work

Antennas constitute as a major component in various communication systems, signal transmission and many others. It is important to understand how they work and create propagating waves in...

Feedforward tuning rules for measurable disturbances with PID control: a tut...

Feedforward control can be considered as the most well-known control approach to deal with measurable disturbances. It started to be used almost 100 years ago, and since then it is being...

MATLAB Example: Waveform Analysis Using the Ambiguity Function

This example shows how to use the ambiguity function to analyze waveforms. It compares range and Doppler capabilities of several common pulsed waveforms such as the rectangular waveform, the...

Basic course of control theory (Hungarian and English)

The basic course of control theory is taught in the 3rd year for the students specialized in information technology at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of the Budapest...

How are Beamforming and Precoding Related?

Explains the relationship between Beamforming and Precoding in multi-antenna communication systems. Also discusses the relationship to Diversity.

Cascade Control

When and how to use Cascade Control

Nyquist Stability Criterion

The Wikipedia article on Nyquist Stability Criterion.  This covers the Nyquist plot, the Cauchy argument principle, and the stability criterion itself.  A mathematical derivation is also...

Adaptive Control (Part II) —Modeling the X-15’s Adaptive Flight Control Syst...

This blog post shows how to build from scratch a Simulink model of the famous MH-96, the X-15's Adaptive Flight Control System

No! Not Laplace Transforms

In my 13-year industrial career, I never used Laplace transforms.  However, transfer functions and block diagram notation are efficient methods to describe dynamic behaviors, and are often...